Thomas Edward Brown Quotes

The important thing for me when I look at characters is to consider the kind of constraints placed upon them. Now, me personally, I don't like to have a lot of constraints placed upon me.

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

Freedom is not the absence of obligation or restraint, but the freedom of movement within healthy, chosen parameters.

Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.

There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

People can dress you the way they want, they can do your makeup the way they want, but they can never take away your voice.

I do what I do; I can't control who thinks what.

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

I do need my independence. I have to have that.

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.

None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.

My wife needs her freedom just like me.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

I'm totally committed to the cause of individuality. That's the only thing I stand by: independence.

I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.

I don't have anyone curbing my instincts, doing anything destructive to my self opinion.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.